Sanitary drinking-fountain



H. W. TAYLOR.

SANITARY DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2, 191a.

jl 372, 45 Patented Mar. 29,192L

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SANITARY DRINKING-FGUNTAIN.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

iiatented Mar. 29. Eli Bil.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Hansnr N. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United Statesyresiding at ll arren. in the county of Trumbull and State of "Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Drinking- Fountains of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sanitary drinking fountains, and the invention comprises a simple means of producing a satisfactory drinking mound in an inclined jet of water. Thus. the primary conception is to produce a drinking mound of definite and permanent shape in an inclined. jet of water remotely from its point of discharge. This mound is made relatively thin and wide and projected in a vertical plane so that it may enter the mouth from the side and afford a large draft, and the How of the water at the crest of the mound is with diminished force to make drinking easier. Inasmuch, however, as the water is being continuously discharged in a lateral direction and away from its point of discharge all organisms deposited in the stream by the person drinking will be flushed away immediately.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view and cross section of my improved device on line 1-1 of Fig. 2, showing also a plan View of the exact formation of the jet or stream delivered therefrom. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device and a side view of the arching stream and drinking mound. Fig. 3 is a cross section of the stream on lines 33, Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a plan View and Fig. 5 a front view of the device. Figs. 6 and 7 are longitudinal sect-ions of the device on the line of the water passage and viewed from different angles.

In my application for Letters Patent No. 2241.410, filed March 25, 1918, I show and describe means for directing two separate jets of water into confiuxion and in an arching stream. This stream is flattened and distended transversely where the confluence of water occurs and is built up into a fiattened and distended drinking mound in a vertical plane at the crest of the arching stream. An improved formation of mound and stream of the same kind may be produced by a nipple or nozzle 2 having a slot or single elongated outlet -3 formed with converging walls 4 which narrow the slot at its middle. The ends of the slot are thus enlarged and the end walls 5 diverge from the main passage 6. Thus, a larger volume of water approximating a well-delined jet of water is discharged at each border edge of the stream while a thinner body of water in the form of a web unites these jets. and the water is directed on converging lines at the middle of the slot and on diverging lines at the ends of the slot.

This simple form of nozzle produces a flow of water of peculiar shape, which is correctly and truly represented in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 in the drawings. Thus, as the water issues from the elongated. mouth and is discharged at a greater or less inclination to a pcr 'ieneicular plane it first spreads or with ens out horizontally with two round beads 7 and 8 defining the border edges of the stream and with a web 9 of water uniting these beads. These border edges then converge or come together on curving lines, and a similar formation of water builds up right angles to the first formation and in a vertical plane on the central line of discharge and at the crest of the arching stream. Thus. a substantially crescentshaped mound is produced, which also embodies beaded borders 7 and 8 and web 9'. A. third and similar bead and web formation occurs as the outgrowth of the crescentshaped drinking mound before the stream has spent its force, and this third formation lies in an inclined horizontal plane with the water falling and gathering together for delivery as from a spout or spigot. These interconnected bodies of wate' are like the links in a chain in that they appear to interlink one with the other with each link lying in a plane at right angles to the plane of their connecting links.

Member 2 is also preferably provided with a protecting guard lei having an opening 15 therein opposite outlet 3, and the outletis also bordered by curved lips 16 to prevent any contaminated water deposited 011 the device from intermingling with the outgoing stream. The converging walls 4 of the outlet contract the stream and tend to spread or distend the water transversely to the line of its discharge, while the diverging end walls 5 enhance this spreading effect. A further elfect is to project the contracted smaller and lighter body of water to a greater distance or with increased velocity as compared with the larger and heavier bodies of water which issue through the endrawings,

larged portions of the slot. The result is that the water draws together again on converging lines and builds up the drinking mound as described, providing the proper an le of inclination is given to the stream. in angle of delivery, as shown in the produces a sharply-defined stream as delineated, and a more acute angle relatively to the perpendicular produces a slightly heavier and fuller drinking mound and the flow at the crest is retarded longer.

- lVhat I claim is:

1. In a drinking fountain, a nozzle member having a slotted mouth with end en largements and mounted in an inclined position to produce a spreading stream of water and a reformation of the stream into a crescent-shaped drinking mound.

rowed and of conver ing formation at its middle and arranged in an inclined position to produce an arching stream with a distended drinking mound at its crest.

4. In a drinking fountain, a nozzle member having an elongated outlet with slightly enlarged extremities adapted to produce a I drinking stream having beaded edgesunited by a web of water and said outlet being disposed transversely with its axis in an inclined position.

5. In a drinking fountain, a nozzle member having an outlet formed with converging side walls and diverging end walls and disposed in an inclined plane to project a stream of water at an inclination to the perpendicular. r V l 6. In a drinking fountain, a nozzle member'having a discharge slot which'is contracted at its middle and flaring at its ends, said slot being axially disposed. in an inclined plane to produce a lateral curving stream of water and an elevated drinking mound. 7 V

7. A method of producing a raised drinking mound in an inclined jet of water, con sisting in forcing a single solid stream of water through an oblong outlet and upwardly at an inclination to the vertical and subsequently narrowing the center of the stream transversely while distending it in a vertical plane. 7 V

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, this 26 day of June, 1918.

HALSEY w. TAYLOR. 

